My Front Row Seat in the Nation's Strangest Swing State
Jim Neal ran for the US Senate in North Carolina's Democratic primary in 2008, the second gay person to ever mount a senatorial campaign. Jim's been a featured guest on NPR, Fox, CBS and CNBC and a lecturer at The New School on politics and media. He lives in Chapel Hill with his two sons.
A one-time Senate candidate on how politics replaced basketball in North Carolina--and Elizabeth Dole's strange demise.
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono.
Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
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